Re: good guide to programming style

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:10:40AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:05:21AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>> At $WORK I support a group of analysts, who are generally
>> very smart but they are not familiar with good programming
>> practices. Mostly Window users getting a foot hold in unix by
>> following examples from not so well written Fortran or R examples.
>> 
>> Unfortunately "good" programming is not something I can just define
>> in a short training session. And, it's too easy (and painful) to
>> just identify poor programming techniques or mistakes.  So, I'd
>> like to put some kind of training together and was wondering if
>> anyone here could provide some interesting websites to help the
>> process?
>
>IMHO you need to show why some things are 'bad practice', because 'good
>practice' is what is left after you remove all the bad practice! and knowing
>some bad practice will (should) help people identify others themselves.

the more I read http://www.soberit.hut.fi/mmantyla/BadCodeSmellsTaxonomy.htm
the more I agree :)


>- KISS (keep it simple stupid)
>- namespace preservation (and I don't mean C++ namespaces)
>  eg all members of a structure have a short prefix, all gloabal defines
>  and functions have a prefix.

Good idea! We have discussed namespace collision but that's about it...

>- consistant and clear layout [1]
>
>	David
>
>[1] Considers the following fragment:
>		....
>		....
>	}
>	while (.......................................................................
>	{
>		....
>		....
>Is it the bottom of a 'do' loop or the top of a 'while loop'.


I don't understand your example, "while" is the beginning of a new
loop. what are you saying?

// George


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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><